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13 Apr Law Firms – Next Wave of Cyber Attacks?

April 13, 2016 by Bill Bosen

The recent data breach of the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, or the so called “Panama Papers” leak, has captured a lot of headlines lately. The 11.5 million records, emails, databases, and images that were stolen apparently contained very damaging data on a number of high profile politicians and public figures. Last week, we also saw two other law firms disclose...

07 Apr Hacked corporate email accounts dirt cheap in the underground

April 7, 2016 by Bev Robb

Want to dig up some dirt on a competitor? There's an underground service available where hackers-for-hire can get that corporate email account hacked (dirt cheap) for $500 USD. In a recently released report, Dell SecureWorks research uncovered a highly popular underground cybercrime forum offering corporate email account hacking services for hire. The report noted that Russian cybercriminals jacked up their work hours to 24/7; offered customers...

28 Mar Another breach — If It Can Happen to Verizon, It Can Happen To Anyone

March 28, 2016 by Bill Bosen

Every year I anticipate the release of Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report. I’ve read it religiously for years. As a company that specializes in data breach security and helps countless organizations respond to and investigate security breaches, it’s ironic to say the least that Verizon just experienced a massive data breach of their own. Verizon recently reported that an attacker...

25 Mar Fort Friday Security Clips—Verizon hacked, OS X zero-day

March 25, 2016 by Bev Robb

Data for 1.5 million Verizon Enterprise customers is for sale in an underground cybercrime forum. Security journalist, Brian Krebs of KrebsonSecurity reports that the hacker priced the entire package at $100,000 and was also offering the data in chunks of 100,000 records for $10,000 apiece. Interested buyers were offered an additional perk to purchase information about the security vulnerabilities found in Verizon’s enterprise client portal....

16 Mar Security Myths about Your Employees

March 16, 2016 by Bill Bosen

So as “the computer guy” in the family, I’m the one everyone calls when their PC starts performing slower than cold molasses running uphill. Almost always I find malware to be the main culprit. After a painstaking job of cleaning and hardening, I then begin my duty as a security professional to educate about not clicking on email attachments, staying...

15 Mar When a Computer Security Firm Gets Hacked

March 15, 2016 by Bill Bosen

My normal routine includes a near daily study of security breaches and incidents. Today I came across a security hack that was especially painful. In what must be an incredibly embarrassing incident for Staminus Communications, the company announced last week that they had been breached. It’s bad enough to be hacked at all, but when you’re a computer security firm and...

10 Mar Using in-flight Wi-Fi? You might get hacked!

March 10, 2016 by Bev Robb

Using in-flight Wi-Fi when you travel? Business travelers beware! In-flight Wi-Fi networks could rip the door right off your digital privacy portal. That's no joke either, as it might also provide a convenient entrance for bad threat actors. Sometimes convenience isn't all it is cut up to be. When it comes to privacy and security—in-flight Wi-Fi network services such as GoGo Wireless...

22 Feb Data Breach? Not IF, but When

February 22, 2016 by Bill Bosen

I first heard the phrase a number of years ago: “There are two types of companies, those that have been hacked and those that don’t yet know they’ve been hacked”. Although there are still some security professionals who disagree, I think that for the most part, the industry has now accepted that this is true, and that we need to...

22 Feb Linux Mint ISO and forum database hacked

February 22, 2016 by Bev Robb

Clement Lefebvre, who leads the Linux Mint project reported Sunday that hackers compromised the Mint website on Saturday evening—replacing the download links for Linux Mint ISO 17.3, with malicious ISO images. Lefebvre stated at the Mint blog that this hack only affects Linux Mint versions 17.3 Cinnamon—the compromised version was only available at the Mint blog on Saturday, February 20—if you downloaded any other...

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